Yasokuni wa Naniwa ni tsudoi funakazari aga semu hiro o mimo hito mo ga mo

八十国は難波に集ひ船かざり
我がせむ日ろを見も人もがも

Roma-ji: Yasokuni wa Naniwa ni tsudoi funakazari aga semu hiro o mimo hito mo ga mo
English Translation: From eighty countries
all gather at Naniwa
to deck out their ships;
on the day I do the same
would there were someone to see
Meaning: Men from many provinces gather at Naniwa to deck out their ships. On the day I do so myself, how I wish someone were there to see me off.
Commentary: Book Twenty Frontier Guard Poems 4329

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems of the frontier guards sent in rotation to the provinces of Tsukushi in the second month of Tenpyō Shōhō 7, year of the wood sheep."
Men of many provinces gather at Naniwa and deck out their ships; on the day I do so, would there were someone to see me: the poem sings of the loneliness of having no family to see him off. The second poem from Sagami, it contrasts the bright scene of departure with the solitude of having no kin to watch. Hiro is hi, "day," with a suffix, and mimo is a dialect form of mimu.
The author, Tajihibe no Kunihito, is recorded as a regular guard from Ashigarashimo District in Sagami; nothing more is known of him.

The first line, "yasokuni wa," "the eighty provinces," refers to guards gathered from many provinces.
The second line, "Naniwa ni tsudoi," names Naniwa, where the guards assembled and set sail.
The third line, "funakazari," the decking out of ships for departure, shows a grand send-off. The next poem also sings of making ready at Naniwa harbor.
The fourth line, "aga semu hiro o," means "the day I shall do this and depart."
The closing line, "mimo hito mo ga mo," "would there were someone to see," expresses the wish with mogamo.
Author: Tajihibe no Kunihito
Source: Manyoshu
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